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Uganda has suspended its search for Joseph Kony after the rebel takeover of
the Central African Republic last month, throwing into doubt an
international manhunt backed by the US for one of the world’s most wanted
men.

The Ugandan Government said that it was halting its leading role in the search
for the fugitive militia leader because of hostility towards foreign troops
in the republic since the coup, adding that the soldiers it had deployed to
hunt down Mr Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) had been confined to their
bases.

“We have temporarily suspended operations against the LRA until further